Through a nuanced interplay of black-and-white and color photography, Richard Hay Jr. traces quiet correspondences between West Africa and the Americas, offering a lyrical meditation on everyday life across geography and time. Refusing dominant visual tropes of poverty, conflict, or exoticism, Hay approaches his subjects with a distinctly artistic lens, lyrically rendering shared human experiences shaped by local and global material cultures. The photographs, taken during the 1970s, are often contextually ambiguous. Streets, interiors, landscapes, and fleeting encounters resist fixed narratives, instead opening a contemplative space in which affinities and differences between cultures emerge organically. An ocean apart and decades removed, these places appear intrinsically linked through rhythm, repetition, and lived experience.
Framed by an essay by renowned Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma, the images are situated within a broader reflective context, collapsing temporal distance and encouraging reflection on continuity, transformation, and impermanence. Resounding with Echoes invites slow looking and proposes photography as a means of attentive witnessing—one that honors the ordinary while acknowledging the layered histories embedded within it.
Photographs: Richard Hay Jr.
Text: Richard Hay Jr., Emmanuel Iduma
Designed by Luminosity Lab (Caleb Cain-Marcus)
Book image: Steven Paneccasio
Published by Kehrer Verlag
Cloth hardcover with tipped in plates
6.7 × 9.6 inches
112 pages
30 color images and 30 b/w images
English
ISBN: 978-3-96900-223-0
Through a nuanced interplay of black-and-white and color photography, Richard Hay Jr. traces quiet correspondences between West Africa and the Americas, offering a lyrical meditation on everyday life across geography and time. Refusing dominant visual tropes of poverty, conflict, or exoticism, Hay approaches his subjects with a distinctly artistic lens, lyrically rendering shared human experiences shaped by local and global material cultures. The photographs, taken during the 1970s, are often contextually ambiguous. Streets, interiors, landscapes, and fleeting encounters resist fixed narratives, instead opening a contemplative space in which affinities and differences between cultures emerge organically. An ocean apart and decades removed, these places appear intrinsically linked through rhythm, repetition, and lived experience.
Framed by an essay by renowned Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma, the images are situated within a broader reflective context, collapsing temporal distance and encouraging reflection on continuity, transformation, and impermanence. Resounding with Echoes invites slow looking and proposes photography as a means of attentive witnessing—one that honors the ordinary while acknowledging the layered histories embedded within it.
Photographs: Richard Hay Jr.
Text: Richard Hay Jr., Emmanuel Iduma
Designed by Luminosity Lab (Caleb Cain-Marcus)
Book image: Steven Paneccasio
Published by Kehrer Verlag
Cloth hardcover with tipped in plates
6.7 × 9.6 inches
112 pages
30 color images and 30 b/w images
English
ISBN: 978-3-96900-223-0